The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-11-10
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


The new iron railroad bridge across the Mis-
souri, river, a few miles below Kansas City, is
1892 feet long and weighs 81, go tons
GEN GRANTS old war horse, Claiborne, has
been presented TO the members of the National
Military Home. Kansas, by Capt. Campbell, OF
Fort Leavenworth.
THE island of Grand Manan is the home of
cut-and dried monopoly that would be hard to
match. Grand Manan puts up annually more
than million boxes of smoked herring, ana
controls the market
THE Supreme Court of Ohio has decided that
the act providing for the laying of tax to raise
funds for the building of monument to Gen;
William H. Harrison, President of the United
States, is valid, and the monument Will there
fore be built at an early day.
CoREA recently broke down her ancient bar
riers so far as to send an envoy to Japan, but
the government was so poor that it could not
support him, and. soon coming to the end or
his resources, had TO ask aid of the Japanese
government to avoid being put in desperate
straits.
Miss LAURA WNLLER. of Iowa, is one of the
most successful Temperance workers in the
State. The fact that she is totally blind seems
no bar to her vigorous work IN her taVorlte
field, the workshop, where she makes strong
and personal appeals for men to give up liquor
drinking.
A SMALL Scotch terrier dog in Little Rock
steals his way on the street cars regularly four
times day, to and from his masters place OF
business. Whether his muster is along or not
he waits for the car at the crossing and hops on
behind and alights with gentlemanly ease when
it arrives in front of his masters store or resi-
dence.
Mrs. ISAAC ARMAGosT, of Crawford county,
Pennsylvania was ill., and her son started out
with his gun to'ldll a pheasant for her He re-
turned, after a long hunt, without any game,
but shortly after he had entered the house
crash of window glass was heard in the parlor.
and a plump pheasant was found en- the floor
with its neck broken.
The leading newspaper man in Japan is Mr..
Murayama. Nine years ago he started Asdht
Shimbun (Which, being interpreted, is Rising
Sun Ne~s), at Osaka. 1t now has circulation
of $1,000, and an agent of the editor and pro-
prietor is in this country to buy improved presses
for the AsGhi Shinlbun. 1t is partly illustrated,
and sells for four fths Of 1c
TwENTY-oNE large wagons have been shipped
to South America by an indianapolis maker on
which to haul as much as can be loaded on
them. Each weighs about $500 pounds, and
each wheel weighs 2SS pounds. The tires are
inches wide and inch thick. The axes are of
hickory, the hubs of black birch, and the re-
| mainder of the wagon is of oak.
JOHN IRWIN, of Cuba, lost his voice last sum-
mer, and regained it in singular manner. He
started to the ST. Louis Exposition with his
family and the cars being crowded the conduc-
tor sent him back to a sleeper The porter
ordered him out, and heated discussion fol
lowed during which Mr.. Irwin warmed up till
his feeble whisper gradually developed into his
natural tone of voice. The restoration appears
TO be permanent.
In CHINA all the roads except the Imperial
| highways are tracks over private land The
| owner does all he can to restrict them. When
| the soil washes down into the rOad-the road is
| always deeper than the land-the owner digs
out the road to get back his soil with interest.
| This makes the roads in the rainy season success
| siOns of deep puddleS and over all Northern
China traffic is suspended for four five months
| every year, on account of the impassability of
| the roads. .
Mr. EDISON the electrician, has again brought
| to notice the subject of distant signaling by
means of throwing the rays from the electric
| light upon the clouds, and by combination of
short and long flashes, somewhat similar to the
| Morse telegraph code, communicate from one
| station to another some twenty miles away. To
demonstrate the practicability of this scheme it
| is proposed that it should be tried aboard any
of the government vessels fitted with the electric
search light.
| A BLUE-BLAzER is made with two silver or
plated mugs. Take one small teaspoonful of
powdered white sugar dissolved in one wine
| glass of boiling water, one wineglass of Scotch
whisky. Put the whisky and the boiling water
in one mug, ignite the liquid with fire, and while
| blazing, mix both ingredients by pouring them
! several times from one mug TO another. If well
stream of liquid fire. In practicing the making
| of this beverage the novice should use cold
water to avoid scalding himself
A CITIZEN of Copenhagen, Denmark, recently
wrote to the st. Louis Chief of Police asking
for an appointment on the police force of that
city. He inclosed his photograph and said that
he was 6 feet inches ia height weighed go
nOlD6S. GOIIin and onx
man of his size in the country. He also stated
that he was not lacking in courage and GOODNESS
| His photograph was returned by the chief, who
informed him that there were already over 200
hundred applicants ahead of him, and that
every one OF them resided In St. Louis.
MAGGIE ARLINGTON, actress, who died in
New York on Sunday, was born in Lawrence
Mass, in 1858, and began her career in St Louis
| in 1872. Her real name was Margaret Ryerson
She subsequently married nephew of Admiral
Jouett, by whom she had one child son, but
the two separated on account of the husbands
refusal to permit her to remain on the stage
While leaning over the dumb waiter shaft at
| her residence Sept ID last, she slipped and fell
a distance of IS feet, breaking both legs and an
arm, besides injuring herself internally.
| ONEIDA CAvALHo, the last of the Humboldt In
dams, died in San Francisco the other dat
She only 32 years old, and was undoubtedly
the last of her tribe, which was nearly wiped
out of existence twenty seven years ago, when
been at war, surprised them and killed over coo
men, women and children Oneida father was
killed. and the mother escaped with the 5-year-
old child, whom she sold to a steamboat
captain. The captain reared the little girl until
she was II, when she went to live with the
family in whose house she died.
ONE DAY last week George wiki and his wife
living near Scottsburg, Indiana, went to town.
leaving their two boys aged and years. with
their grandparents During the day the chill
dren amused themselves by playing with a pet
squirrel. Finally the oldest found an old
twenty-five calibre revolver upon a shelf in a
closet, and, while the squirrel was living upon
his little brothers arm, he pointed the dangerous
weapon at the animal and pulled the trigger
The weapon being discharged, the ball killed
the squirrel and penetrated the arm of the
youngest boy causing serious wound
FIRE DRILL in theatres has been tried in
Algiers at the National Theatre During a
fuldress rehearsal of a new piece the house
was filed with spectators, an alarm of fire was
given. and the garrison firemen speedily arrived
on the scene to rescue the audience In ten
minutes time the firemen had emptied the
theatre bringing out the spectators from the
upper galleries by means of ropes and ladders
The drill was well and quickly done but as the
audience knew that 1t was only false alarm
there was none of the panic likely to com
plicate matters in the event of a real disaster
and so the value of the experiment is not very
great.
ABOUT six years ago the experiment of stock
ing Oregon with Chinese pheasauts was tried
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